Short facts about communications in Greece

Telephones - main lines in use:

5.431 million (1997)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

937,700 (1997)

Telephone system:

general assessment:  adequate, modern networks reach all areas; good mobile telephone and international service domestic:  microwave radio relay trunk system; extensive open wire connections; submarine cable to offshore islands international:  tropospheric scatter; 8 submarine cables; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), 1 Eutelsat, and 1 Inmarsat (Indian Ocean region)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 26, FM 88, shortwave 4 (1998)

Radios:

5.02 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

36 (plus 1,341 low-power repeaters); also two stations in the US Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (1995)

Televisions:

2.54 million (1997)

Internet country code:

.gr

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

27 (2000)

Internet users:

1.33 million (1999)

Source: World Factbook